It can be jarring to look at Clippers’ box scores on occasion and seeing how infrequently they score in the paint. At some points, it’s comical.
But the Clippers have made it clear this season that they aren’t terribly concerned with scoring in the paint. They definitely want to get into the paint, not necessarily to score, but to make the defense collapse, kick out, and then rain jump shots on their opponents.
“What it leads to is more important,” head coach Ty Lue said postgame about the paint attacks. “I think as long as we’re touching the paint and teams are going to help, being able to spray out for threes and like you said, we are number one in the league in catch and shoot threes right now, so we’re doing a good job of getting into the paint, and when teams are helping or overreacting, we’re doing a good job of spraying it out for threes, or we’re making a swing swing pass for a guy to make a shot as well, so we just got to continue to keep doing that, just take what the defense gives us.